Tour de Suisse 1997

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Final score
Tour winner FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto 37:48:01 h
Second SwitzerlandSwitzerland Oscar Camenzind +2: 08 min
Third GermanyGermany Jan Ullrich +4: 20 min
Fourth SpainSpain David Etxebarria +5: 32 min
fifth SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roland Meier +6: 18 min
Sixth SpainSpain Félix García Casas +6: 22 min
seventh ItalyItaly Daniele Nardello +6: 48 min
Eighth ItalyItaly Stefano Garzelli +7: 17 min
Ninth SwitzerlandSwitzerland Philipp Buschor +7: 27 min
Tenth SwitzerlandSwitzerland Beat Zberg +8: 31 min
Scoring SwitzerlandSwitzerland Oscar Camenzind 101 P.
Second GermanyGermany Jan Ullrich 68 P.
Third GermanyGermany Erik Zabel 61 P.
Mountain scoring ItalyItaly Stefano Garzelli 37 p.
Second SwitzerlandSwitzerland Oscar Camenzind 33 p.
Third GermanyGermany Jan Ullrich 24 P.
Team evaluation ItalyItaly Mapei-GB 113: 41: 40 h
Second GermanyGermany Team Deutsche Telekom +3: 22 min
Third NetherlandsNetherlands Rabobank +31: 01 min

The 61st Tour de Suisse took place from June 17 to 26, 1997. It was held in nine stages and a prologue over a distance of 1520 kilometers.

Overall winner was Christophe Agnolutto . The tour started in Romanshorn with a prologue over 7.2 kilometers and ended in Zurich . A total of 157 drivers started in Romanshorn. 90 of them finished in Zurich.

Stages

stage Day Start finish km Stage winner Overall rating
prolog 17th of June Romanshorn - Romanshorn 7.2 ( EZF ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Oscar Camenzind SwitzerlandSwitzerland Oscar Camenzind
1st stage 18th of June Romanshorn - Basel 193.1 GermanyGermany Erik Zabel SwitzerlandSwitzerland Oscar Camenzind
2nd stage June 19th Basel - La Chaux-de-Fonds 202.1 FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto SwitzerlandSwitzerland Oscar Camenzind
3rd stage 20th June La Chaux-de-Fonds - Kandersteg 183.2 GermanyGermany Jan Ullrich FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto
4th stage June 21st Spiez - Spiez 31.5 ( EZF ) UkraineUkraine Sergei Gonchar FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto
5th stage June 22 Biasca - Bosco Gurin * 147.5 SpainSpain David Etxebarria FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto
6th stage 23rd June Locarno - train 193.9 BelgiumBelgium Tom Steels FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto
7th stage June 24th Train - Wetzikon 174.3 GermanyGermany Rolf Aldag FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto
8th stage 25th June Wetzikon - Davos 195.9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Oscar Camenzind FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto
9th stage June 26th Davos - Zurich 191.3 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Niki Aebersold FranceFrance Christophe Agnolutto

* Due to the onset of bad weather, the original starting point Spiez was dispensed with and instead started in Biasca, a replacement route and only the original final part was driven.

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